A recent graduate of the American Conservatory Theater's MFA program, Kira Blaskovich is thrilled to be working on her fifth production since moving out to New York. Favorite productions include Vicarious (Bosley Productions, NY Fringe Festival), Cowboy Mouth (Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.), Time of Your Life (Steppenwolf Theatre Co, Tina Landau dir.), and two original shows with the Tearany Theater Company started by fellow ACT alum, Marilee Talkington. A grassroots political activist at heart, she hopes to create theater that constantly reminds the audience that reality is perspective and can be changed with a thought.

Jeremy Bohen studied broadcasting at Arizona State University.  After graduating, Jeremy returned to New York to pursue a career in sales and marketing. Two years later, he quit his job out of boredom and decided to pursue acting.  Since then Jeremy has studied acting with Susan Cohen and Liz Evert at the Susan Grace Cohen Studio. Jeremy has appeared several times on ABC-TV’s All My Children, in corporate films for Sony Electronics and Corning, Inc., and in various theatre and film projects.

Jenifer recently moved to NYC and is thrilled to be making her debut with trip. Originally from Alabama, she graduated with her BFA in Theatre from the University of South Alabama.  Stage credits include Aggie Wainwright in The Grapes of Wrath (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Luciana in Comedy of Errors, Madge in Summer Brave,  and Clear Glass Marbles in Talking With. Other credits include Libby in Blue Window, Cass in Wonder of the World, Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, and various student films. She would like to send many big, big hugs to her family and friends. And a very special thank you to Mom, Dad, Jean and Kenny for their constant love and sanity.

Stage credits include: Freebase Frankie in The Closer, Edward in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, Melchior in Spring Awakening, Ben in Seascape with Shark and Dancer; twelve roles in Macbeth and Alex in the second American production of A Clockwork Orange.  Outside of trip. he has appeared with with the Actor’s Art Theatre out of L.A., Amnesty International, The Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, The Dallas Theatre Center, The Dallas Repertory Theatre, The Castle Shakespeare Repertory, and the Canterbury Theatre outside of Chicago. Film credits include: Sweet and Lowdown, New York - The Documentary and Entourage. Stage directing credits include: 4Play, Sex in a Series, Finding Gräfenberg, Tripping, Red Wine, Sex, Gods & Violent Happiness, Fine, Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille, & Sexual Perversity In Chicago. Film directing credits include: Monologues, Clarity, Visual Reality, Help I'm Stuck in the Closet with Barry Manilow, Macy's at Christmas and The Alice Project. He has performed stand-up at the Improv, The New York Comedy Club, The Funny Bone, The Laff Stop and Froggy Bottems.  He is also a founding member of the comedy troupe Ad-Libs. 

Originally from New Jersey, Keith has been in New York City for six years now where he studied acting with The Atlantic Theatre Company and has been working in the wonderful world of theater. He recently closed a production of the acclaimed off-broadway show Fools In Love with The Millennium Talent Group at The Manhattan Ensemble Theatre. He has worked with Ludlow 10 Productions as Demetrius and Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream, and as Casca and Lepidus in Julius Caesar. He worked for a year with Radio Theatre NYC on various radio plays such as Mad House, Hardboiled, and War of the Worlds. He is currently in pre-production for a film trilogy titled The Medisaga, which begins, shooting this summer. This is Keith's fourth adventure with trip. over the past year. He is thrilled to be working with such an amazing group of talented actors on this amazing project and can't wait for what the future holds.

Kristin Stewart Chase is slated to appear next as Prudence in the new farcical comedy, Dear Prudence sometime this fall. Recent credits include Viola in Twelfth Night for New York Classical Theatre, the title role of Sophocles' Antigone and a glamorous media figure in the mordant comedy, Ismene, for Resonance Ensemble's repertory co. She was a "bat" for two years prior, performing numerous roles at Jim Simpson's Flea Theater, among them Judy in Mac Wellman's Sincerity Forever, Sophie in Brecht's Baal and Alma in Alice Tuan's AJAX (por nobody).  Each of those shows enjoyed an extended downtown run, and AJAX took her on a sojourn to Australia's Melbourne Fringe Festival. She has also made several appearances with The Metropolitan Playhouse of NY, most recently as Wanda in The Woman. Other favorites include Emily in Our Town and Vivie in Mrs. Warren's Profession in NYC and Rosalind in As You Like It with Prospect Theater's Georgia venture. Kristin grew up in Arkansas and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.

Avery is an Arkansas native who moved to NYC in August 2002. In the past year he has performed in The Lion in Winter at S.I. Shakespeare, 31 Bond at the Brooklyn Lyceum, Trip/Sexxy with trip., a handful of indy features, and a couple of music videos. Avery is honored to be a part of trip, both acting and production, and would like to thank Lisa, Nate, and Graham for their support and blind faith.

Shelley has appeared in the New York productions of The Soldier Dreams (Spiral Inc.), Soul Searching - a rock opera (BlackBox Entertainment), Love, Joel (!3th St. Repertory Company), Raw (Cedar Lake)  and Candida (Expanded Arts).  She has also appeared in several independent films including 100 Stories, It's All Good and most recently, Fragments of Fantasy.  Shelley is originally from Pennsylvania, where she received a BA in Theatre and she continued her training with Larry Silverberg and Terry Schreiber here in NY.

Carlo D'Amore has been seen at Soho Rep in Arthur Giron’s A Death of Wealth.  Before that, he was shooting the feature film I the Sinner in South America.  Other New York Credits include Moment of Truth at Manhattan playhouse, Summer & Smoke at the Roundabout Theatre and Being at Home with Claude on Christopher Street.  Prior to moving to New York, Carlo lived and worked in San Francisco where he worked for two seasons at the Magic Theatre working on plays by Constance Congdon and Nilo Cruz.  He also spent two seasons with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.  Most recently Carlo appeared on the HBO series OZ.

Kimberly Dilts is an actor, director, and choreographer who is thrilled to be taking this trip..  Recent projects include choreographing War Music, an adaptation of Christopher Logue’s poetic take on the Iliad for FirstWorksProv, The Chicago Humanities Festival and the NY Council for the Humanities, and.co-directing Faust for Aurea (Providence, RI), in which she played the role of Mephistopheles.  NY credits include understudying and assistant directing for The Revenger's Tragedy (Off-B’way), and performing in Alice2, The Information She Carried, the Turnip Festival, and readings at the Pearl Theatre, NYTW and The Directors Company.  She has also appeared as a guest star on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Dirty Sexy Money.  Kim is a graduate of UT Austin’s MFA Acting program.

A relative newcomer to New York City, Jamie is pleased to have worked with trip.  He's lived and worked in Florida, Los Angeles, Denver, Cape Cod, Ohio and West Virginia. Favorite roles include Ben in The Dumbwaiter, Manus in Translations, Slim in Cowboy Mouth, and Horatio in Hamlet. Jamie holds an MFA from the FSU/ASOLO Conservatory.

Amber received her BFA in acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts where she originated the role of Tia in Fitting Rooms. Amber has an extensive classical background playing such roles as Rosalind in As You Like It and Olivia in Twelfth Night.  She is an Associate Member of 29th Street Repertory in NYC where she played Erin in Hiding Behind Comets, Carol in North of Providence, and understudied the role of Alice in The High Priest of California. Amber is thrilled to be a part of the vision that is trip.

Jeni is a William Esper Studios  graduate as well as a member of Inverse Theatre.  New York credits include Aria in Icarus and Aria, directed by Aaron Beall; Peakabo in Life’s Losses Loved and Hey Baby in Sex Toys & Subway Stories, both directed by Kirstin Ames, Walker in The Death of Griffin Hunter, directed by Emma Griffin; and Hermione in A Winter’s Tale with Tyrannosaurus Rep.  Regional credits include Agnes in A Bright Room Called Day.  Television credits include Law and Order.  

Ben Hindell produced and played the lead in Veins and Thumbtacks at the Abingdon Theatre Co. He has appeared in such award winning productions as Last of the Dragons and The Ransom of Redchief both at the Vital Theater Company and Dead End at the John Houseman Theater. He has acted in various independent films such as Believe which featured the late singer Aaliyah and a commercial for Alamo Car Rentals. As a producer, Ben presented an evening of one acts entitled Uptown With Love at the Blue Heron Arts Center and as well as The Guitar Lesson a short digital film.

Dawn has lived in New York City since she graduated Western Connecticut State University in 2002. Prior to attending WCSU, Dawn studied with The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Since moving to NYC, Dawn has performed in multiple Indie films including The Night Life and the soon to be released feature Fillbilly, as well as the short filmThe Plum which had premiered in the Berlin Film Festival. She has also recently been seen in commercials and Showcases. Some of her favorite roles performed include Marjorie in Extremities, Bananas in The House of Blue Leaves, Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard, Karen in The Bleeding Heart (with William Fichtner). She has also performed in the independent film Clean-Shaven with Peter Greene. Television credits include: MTV, Another World and As the World Turns. Dawn has been has been in private study acting workshop with Le Mos and has also attended Weist-Barron and The School of Performing Arts. Dawn’s artistic training beyond theatre involves singing, ballet, point, modern, and tap dancing. .

Jessica is originally from Chicago, aka CHI TOWN, and is damn proud of it. She is currently a student at New York University at the Stella Adler Conservatory. She has also trained at Second City Chicago, Comedy Sportz, and currently with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She is thrilled to be one of the newest members of trip.

Kate is very happy to be working with trip.  She’s a SUNY Oswego grad with post-grad work at NYU, School for Film & Television and Actors Alliance Studios.  Her stage credits include Sustaining at the Manhattan Theatre Source, The Last Resort at Chashama Theatre, August Strindberg’s MotherLuv at Creative Artists Lab and most recently, a Sanford Meisner Tribute at The Producer’s Club.  Her film credits include The Sonnet Project, Running Time, Skinny Boy Parodies, and Lenny Hates… on DailyComedy.com.  She’s also an avid contemporary art fan- her favorite works being that of her sister, Meghan McGrath. She also attempts to play the acoustic guitar.

Molly Perch returned to New York after graduating from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.  There she appeared as Frosine in Moliere’s The Miser.  She recently co-starred as The White Rabbit in Alice Underground, winner of "Best Short" in the 1999 New York Independent Film Festival.  Molly has also studied at HB Studios with Carol Morely and Sanford Morris.

Hailing from Mobile, Alabama, Candy holds a BA in Theatre from Florida State University. Since the debut of Tripping in November of 1999, she has been busy as a co-founder and actor with a new NY based actors' group, Southern Fried Productions, and can be seen in a commercial for the new Oxygen Network. Some of her favorite stage roles include: Jackie Coryton in Hayfever, Little Lanette in Last Days of the Dixie Girl Cafe, Griselda/Kit/Shona in Top Girls, and Allegra in Noon. Thanks to the family for all of their love and support.

New York credits include Fool For Love and cast member developing the Drama Department’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Regional credits include A Sense of Place, with playwright Lanford Wilson; Misalliance, The Cherry Orchard, American Buffalo, Beirut, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet and The Mystery of Irma Vepp.

Laura Beth Wells is thrilled to be working with trip.. A native of Tennessee, Laura Beth received her BA in Theatre from the University of Tennessee and her MFA in Acting from Kent State University. After a stint in San Francisco, she moved to New York last year. Favorite roles include JoJo in Jessie (Chelsea Playhouse), Cleo in The Mosy Happy Fella (Gallery Players), Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest (Calveras Repertory) and Billie in Born Yesterday (Theatre Central). When she's not acting, Laura Beth can be found roaming the city with bands of teenaged tourists-- she's a tour guide for high school groups coming to NYC.